Clothes-drying rack.



Patented May 2!, [90L 6. W. DAUBER.

CLOTHES DRYING RACK (No Model.)

(Application filed Dec. 19, 1900.]

, INVENTOfi CARL W DAUBEF? ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

CARL W. DAUBER, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

CLOTHES-DRYING RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 67&,673, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed December 19, 1900. Serial No. 40,338. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL W. DAUBER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, (but having declared my intention to become a citizen of the United States,) residing at the city of Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Drying Rack, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in clothes-drying racks, in which any number of removable horizontal bars or rods in pairs are suspended on cables and made vertically adj ustable over a stove or other heating apparatus; and the objects of my improvements are, first, to provide a clothes-drying rack with removable horizontal bars in pairs at such distances apart and combined and fastened together in such a manner as to prevent an article of clothing on a bar or rod above from lapping over and touching an article of clothing on the bar or rod immediately below; second, to afford facilities for making the bars or rods supporting the clothing easily removable; third, to keep the back or front row of the clothes-supporting bars from sagging when more weight of clothes is placed on the one than on the other, and, fourth, to make the clothes-drying rack vertically adjustable over a stove, range, or other heating apparatus. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of the entire clothes-drying rack as suspended from the ceiling of a room in use.. Fig. 2 represents a detailed horizontal sectional view of the end of one of the clothes-supporting bars, and Fig. 3 is a detailed vertical sectional view of one end of said bars.

Referring to the drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures, 1 represents the clothes-supporting bars.

3 represents the end-connecting bars, which are arranged as in the form shown in the drawings.

4 represents a slot in a suitable ferrule 6, fitted upon each end of the clothes-supporting bars.

5 indicates a cylindrical opening in each end of the connecting-bars, through which the cable 9 passes. The ferrule 6 has an inwardlyprojecting part 7, forming, in effect, a springcatch, said catch projecting across the slot 4 in said ferrule. The rods 1 are cut away on one side of the slot, as at 8. The cables or cords are provided at suitable intervals beneath the connectingbars with metallic sleeves 10, said sleeves being rigidly secured to the rope or cable at said points, the ends of the sleeves being flared for a purpose to be hereinafter mentioned.

In stringing the rack together the sleeves on the ends of the cable are pressed in the slots in the ends of the two lower supportingbars just beneath the two short connectingbars 3, and at a suitable interval above the same two more rods or bars are secured in a like manner to the cord or cable immediately below two long connecting-bars. At a suitable interval above the latter two more supporting-bars are secured in a similar manner just beneath two shorter connecting-bars and then above the same in a like manner two supporting-bars are secured to the rope or cable just beneath the upper long connecting-bars 2. The ends of the ropes'or cables 9, projecting above the bars 2, are secured to the cables 9, the latter being secured to the upper connecting-bars 2, from whence they pass over pulleys 11, secured to the ceiling of a room, and thence back to the wall, where they are passed over pulleys 12, arranged close together, from whence they descend to within easy reach of an operator. When the apparatus is elevated or lowered to the desired position,.the ends of the ropes or cables 9 are wrapped around a cleat or other securing means 13. In order to keep the back or front row of the clothes-supporting bars from sagging when more weight of clothing is placed on the one than on the other, a cord is secured by any means to the center of one of the upper supporting-bars, thence passed to the opposite one of the second pair of supporting-bars and fastened by a clamp or other means at the center of the bar, thence forward on the center of the opposite one of the third pair of supporting-bars, and thence across to the opposite supporting-bar of the fourth pair, where it is securely fastened. From the other upper supporting-bar a cord is secured in alike manner, and passing down in a similar manner to, but opposite from, the cord before mentioned, substantially as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be seen with reference to Figs. 2 and 3 that the sleeves 10 rest in the ends of the slot 4 and are secured from accidental removal therefrom by the spring-catch 7. The flared ends of the sleeves 1O serve to vertically support the respective connecting and clothes-supporting bars in positionon the cable 9. The clothes-supporting bars are removed from the cable 9 by simply pressing the catch back out of the way, thus permitting the sleeves 10 to pass freely from the slots.

I am aware that prior to my invention suspended clothes-drying racks have been made. I therefore do not make any claim to this alone.

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination in a suspended clothes-- drying rack with removable clothes-sup porting bars arranged in pairs at suitable distances apart alternately with two long connecting-bars and two shorter connecting-bars, the sleeves 10 secured to the cables 9 to vertically support the clothes supporting bars and provided with flared ends to vertically support the connecting bars, the cables 9 and 9 and the central cord secured by any means to the center of the clothes-supporting bars substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination in a suspended clothesdrying rack with removable clothes-supporting bars 1 having the slot 4 and catch 7 at each end fitting over the sleeves 10, the sleeves 10 with flared ends, the cables 9 fixed in the sleeves and the cables 9 substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CARL W. DAUBER.

Witnesses:

M. E. FOWLER, I, URIAH HARMAN. 

